Help! My boyfriend is a hypochondriac!
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Help! My boyfriend is a hypochondriac!
| Wed, 01-07-2004 - 1:15am |
Yes, ladies, he gets an ache and he thinks he has kidney failure..and to make it worse, he's afraid of doctors....How the heck am I supposed to deal with this? I don't want to nag, but there is no other way to get him to just go to the doctor..
Jenn


Jenn,
When I was little I saw a show on kids with cancer and I automatically thought that I had cancer I would beg my mom to take me to see the doector and she had to tell me a million times that I was fine, it took many years of the constant reassurance for me to finally believe her but it worked...
I have never dated anyone who always thought that something was wrong with them in fact I dated the type of guy that thought they were perfect, is this a constant thing with him? or is it only every so often maybe he sees something on t.v that makes him think that something is wrong with him one thing I have learned is the mind is very powerful it can create inages in our minds that for us are real but in reality they arent the mind can also make us feel pains that we really dont have like when a woman is pregnant sometimes the father of the baby will have such guilt that he will get pregancy pains along with the mother maybe that is it with the boyfriend...
I am sure that I have not lent a whole lot of insight but if I gave just a little than I am happy...
Good luck with this
Erin
Well, actually..about a month ago he had some red welts on his legs and it turned out he'd given himself a staph infection through scratching at his overly dry skin. So, upon reading the warnings on the antibiotic prescription label, and the warnings that it could cause kidney failure, he's all freaked out. Well, first off, it is a warning for people who already have kidney disease! I told him in the future the doc and I are having a talk and only I am allowed to see the warnings. Argh! :P
Jenn